Historical Object
Wisconsin Thematic Panel 684-689
!["I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the modern machinery used. But as yet there has nothing taken the place of the kros cut saw. I contracted handled as much as 12 million ft. logs per year".<br>[unsigned]<br><br>The common nineteenth-century view was that the natural use of land was for farms and that forests, a handicap to this use, had to be cleared away; and in the process you got fortunes, towns, factories, jobs, houses, barns and fences. Yet by the mid-twentieth century, not over one-sixteenth of the former pine forest land of northern Wisconsin was effectively farm land.](http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700013050039/1305000765-l.jpg "Wisconsin Thematic Panel 684-689")
| "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the modern machinery used. But as yet there has nothing taken the place of the kros cut saw. I contracted handled as much as 12 million ft. logs per year". [unsigned] The common nineteenth-century view was that the natural use of land was for farms and that forests, a handicap to this use, had to be cleared away; and in the process you got fortunes, towns, factories, jobs, houses, barns and fences. Yet by the mid-twentieth century, not over one-sixteenth of the former pine forest land of northern Wisconsin was effectively farm land. |
| Image ID: | 102600 |
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| Creator Name: | Vanderbilt, Paul |
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| Collection Name: | Wisconsin Thematic Panels Project, 1965-1967 and 1982-1984 |
| Genre: | Historical Object |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 5000.684-689 |
| Original Dimensions: | 60 x 18 inches |
| Panel consists of: Image ID: 106378 PH 5000.684-689.0684 Image ID: 46149 PH 5000.684-689.0685 Image ID: 106379 PH 5000.684-689.0686 Image ID: 106380 PH 5000.684-689.0687 Image ID: 106381 PH 5000.684-689.0688 Image ID: 10458 PH 5000.684-689.0689 |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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